Germany Undecides

Updated Sept. 23, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

In a battle between a chancellor few Germans find trustworthy and a challenger few deemed likable, voters yesterday split the difference.

Germans voted in roughly equal measure for (or against) Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his rival Edmund Stoiber. As we went to press last night, Mr. Stoiber's two Christian Democrat parties had a slight lead over Mr. Schroeder's Social Democrats, but it was far from clear which parties would make...